Mindful Blog
How do you Project Manage your life?
It does seem to be a human thing to want to control our life, to get what we want, to manifest what we want, to plan our life so that we are successful and happy.But what if this is actually something we learned and not actually a natural way to be. When we were very...
Do you make a difference in the world or would you like to?
If you do, what does this look like? How does it happen? I’d love to hear.Or do you want to make a difference in the world – for people, animals, the environment, society – but don’t know how yet?Then no matter what your mind says about studying, training, doing self...
Integrating Spirituality with Counselling and Hypnotherapy
It’s so natural. Because your spirituality is right here. Your true ‘self” is with you all the time. It’s not something to bring in from outside. It’s not something that you find by thinking or reading. It’s not something that you search for and find.But it can be...
Doing less to be healthy in all areas of your life
It is so usual these days to want to improve our physical health or our mental health or our spiritual health by doing more when actually, maybe we need to do less.Physical health: the way our society looks at health and improving it is all about more – more...
New Year, thinking and my trip to a fasting retreat.
We start a new year.Maybe you have made some new years resolutions, maybe not – either way is fine.And really the days pass and the years pass. We don’t have to have the expectation that just because the calendar says its a new year, that it really is new “year”....
Fundamentally – what matters to you in life?
What is the fundamental truth of being a human?We are born.................we learn how to survive.....................then we die.Does it really matter how right you are?Does it really matter whether you do a job perfectly?Does it really matter if others like...
Living Well
I admire my big brother.He died well.He had thought it all through in detail. Not that he talked to me about it.I don’t even know if he talked about it to his immediate family.But he had it all planned. His directions included being cremated within 24 hours – this...
Do you Hypnothise yourself?
You probably do. Without even realising. You are in a relaxed state and you are telling yourself that you are useless, you are worthless and not good enough. Your unconscious listens to you reinforcing old beliefs by retelling yourself that old stuff.That stuff that...
What is Really Real?
In the day to day happenings, it is real that you do your job, look after your family, eat and sleep.In the week to week happenings, it is real that you plan what you need to do, schedule in meetings and get togethers, and coffee with friends.In the month to month...
Respect yourself and feel those emotions.
I know I’ve written about emotions before.................. but often people ask me – how to feel emotions. Mainly because they want to learn a way to do away with them! And really, we need to feel the emotions just because they are there, and stuffing them in or...